Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger, but now more than two dozen tiny African-Americanowned labels are beginning to steal some of their cool. And even a little bit of cool can be worth it: it may look like merely oversize jeans and hooded sweatshirts, but the $5 billion male urban-clothing niche is growing faster than any other apparel category except, perhaps, lingerie. And how long before Hilfiger offers low-slung panties with his name on the butt...
...according to students from areas as densely populated and urban as Cambridge, one does not have to be from Harvard's less-represented states like Montana to require some adjustment. New Yorkers, Californians, Texans and yes, even Cantabrigians, describe having to adjust in light of the quirks and stereotypes from home that shaped their childhoods...
...Speaking from an urban slang perspective, people talk differently on the East Coast than the West Coast," he says. Accustomed to the distinctly Californian "hella" and "saucy," he notes, "mainly on the East Coast people say `yo' before and after every sentence...
There are two more Tealuxes scheduled to open in Boston later this year, with additional teabars planned for Chicago and Washington D.C. Fernie says he hopes to create 80 to 100 Tealuxes in urban areas nationally...
...confession was fabricated. At 40, Courtney became the mother of Saoirse Roisin, Gaelic for "Freedom Rose." Kerry Kennedy, 38, works for Amnesty International and the R.F.K. Center for Human Rights. In 1990 she wed former New York Governor Mario Cuomo's son Andrew, now Secretary of Housing and Urban Development...